Date: 5/16/26 8:54 am From: Doug Jenness (via aznmbirds Mailing List) <aznmbirds...> Subject: [AZNMbirds] Global Big Day--Pinal County Results
5/16/26
Participants in the Global Big Day spring migration count on May 9 in Pinal
County tallied their third highest number of species in 23 years of the
count, with a total of 179. The highest was 191 last year. The total number
of birds (8,544) was more than 200 greater than last year. Amazingly, we
added five new species to the Pinal County total for the annual migration
count—VAUX’S SWIFT, BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, MARBLED GODWIT, LAUGHING GULL at
San Carlos Lake, and RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD in Saddlebrooke.
Including the five new species, we registered our highest 23-year totals
for 18 species: Blue-winged Teal (13), Green-winged Teal (17), Western
Grebe (355), Lesser Nighthawk (69), Costa’s Hummingbird (27), Broad-tailed
Hummingbird (13), Calliope Hummingbird (3), American Avocet (65), Least
Sandpiper (110), Wilson’s Phalarope (120), American White Pelican (253)
White-faced Ibis (186), Harris’s Hawk (17), Gray Flycatcher (12), European
Starling (236), Bullock’s Oriole (53), Orange-crowned Warbler (18), and
Rose-breasted Grosbeak (2), Species not reported that we typically get
were Pied-billed Grebe, Bald Eagle, Tropical Kingbird, Black-chinned
Sparrow, and Hepatic Tanager. We had 33 volunteers organized in teams of
one or more, and an additional 35 individuals submitted eBird lists.
